Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
Assault and Beadery
by Mollie Cox Bryan
Rating: 4.2 #ad
All of Cora Chevalier’s dreams are coming true. Since moving to Indigo Gap, North Carolina, the busy crafting maven has been blessed with a great boyfriend, a lovely home, and a booming craft retreat business. But on the eve of her first Crafty Mom’s Escape Weekend, tragedy strikes again in Indigo Gap. This time, it’s curtains for Stan Herald, the disagreeable director of the local theater group, who’s murdered on the opening night of their new production. Worse, Cora’s friend Zee is accused of the crime.
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(A Cora Crafts Mysteries)
Keeping Secrets
by Deborah Hawkins
Rating: 4.4 #ad
An innocent man is scheduled to die. A United States Supreme Court nominee holds the key to his freedom. Which will she choose? Her career or his freedom?
Seasoned attorney Brendan Murphy eagerly uncovers legal loopholes for his defendants. After keeping his death-row client alive for thirty long years, he’s sure he can buy enough time for the man to see his son’s upcoming wedding. But when an imminent execution date is suddenly set, Murphy resolves to prove the convict couldn’t have murdered his pregnant wife…
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(The Warrick Thompson Mysteries)
You Are Mine
by Lisa Kent
Rating: 4.3 #ad
A web of lies and dark secrets. A nail-biting hunt for a serial killer.
For over twenty years, Detective Stella Carrigan has managed to bury the nightmare of being kidnapped from her foster family. Her traumatic childhood motivated her to stand up for others and climb the Chicago Police Department ladder by storm. But when Stella is called to a series of murders of women in the sleepy small town of Vandalia, the past abruptly catches up with her – and brings her to the edge of the abyss.
The killer leaves seemingly unrelated clues with each body: A lock of hair, rosebuds, sewing thread – none of the investigators can make sense of any of it.
The Turquoise Lament
by John D. MacDonald, Lee Child
Rating: 4.6 #ad
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When treasure hunter Ted Lewellen saved his life in a bar fight, McGee could never have thought he’d end up paying his rescuer back in such a way. But years later he finds himself headed to Hawaii at Ted’s request to find out whether Pidge’s husband really is trying to kill her, or if she’s just losing her mind.
Of course, once McGee arrives he can’t help but give in to his baser instincts, and as his affair with Pidge gets underway, he can’t find a single thing wrong.
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(A Travis McGee Mysteries)
The Unwilling
by John Hart
Rating: 4.5 #ad
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Gibby’s older brothers have already been to war. One died there. The other came back misunderstood and hard, a decorated killer now freshly released from a three-year stint in prison.
Jason won’t speak of the war or of his time behind bars, but he wants a relationship with the younger brother he hasn’t known for years. Determined to make that connection, he coaxes Gibby into a day at the lake: long hours of sunshine and whisky and older women.
Dragon Approved Complete Series
by Ramy Vance, Michael Anderle
Rating: 4.4 #ad
With every passing day, more and more Dragonriders are falling under the scourge of the Dark One. The forces of humanity and their allies are desperate. They need a new hero to step up and turn the tide.
Myrddin, the resistance’s leader, thinks he might have found that someone…on Earth, of all places.
Word has just come from the east that the Dark One is launching his largest assault yet, but there is still time to stop him. If, that is, they can find someone good enough to take him on. Alex Bound just might be the rider they need. But a human has never been accepted as a Dragonrider.
In A Week
by Didi Larsen
Rating: 5.0 #ad
Sonja Yasina was never delicate. This urban city girl lives in an urban city world. She learned how to thrive in New York’s gritty landscape as a Manhattan socialite. Sonja coveted the attention of alpha males. She slipped into the fast lane by becoming a popular NYC art dealer with connections to high profile male clients. Sonja equated her self-worth to the sexual favors and gifts obtained by prominent men.
She penetrates the inner circle of a successful crew of friends. Her jealous insecurities made her callous and catty. She thinks manipulation is the answers to all of life’s questions, when she doesn’t get what she wants her defense mechanism turns her into a female pray mantis…
Beyond the Surface
by Trisha McKee
Rating: 4.8 #ad
Ella is a middle-aged woman with a stagnant career, an exasperated teenage daughter, and a husband that has left to make a new life with another woman. Her first attempt at dating is a disaster, and in an attempt to refocus her life and rediscover her joy, Ella goes fishing. It is here that she meets Dennis, the older, captivating man that ends up saving her life and stealing her heart. But Dennis has a history, and Ella might just be in for the biggest heartbreak of her life if she can not get her emotions under control and face the demons from her own past.
Penance
by Kanae Minato
Rating: 5.0 #ad
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A chilling Japanese psychological thriller and Edgar Award finalist about four women, forever connected by one horrible day in their childhood — fifteen years later, someone wants to make sure they never forget.
When they were girls, Sae, Maki, Akiko and Yuko were tricked into leaving their friend Emily with a mysterious stranger. Then the unthinkable occurred: Emily was found murdered hours later.
Forgotten Secrets
by Elizabeth Rose
Rating: 4.6 #ad
RONE Award Finalist. Can a gossip in love with an assassin keep his secret?
The gossip: Known as a gossip and for never being able to keep a secret, Morag Douglas was lucky to become an honorary member of the queen’s secret group of strong women. But now she needs to change her reputation. Morag plans to do wonderful and important things and make changes in life in secret – like her sister and cousins have done before her. But when she meets up with the mysterious knight, Sir Bedivere and finds herself falling for him, her plans go astray.
The Assassin…
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(Secrets of the Heart)
Rx for RNs
by Terry Maluk
Rating: 4.5 #ad
Rx for RNs: A Step-by-Step Guide to Manage Stress, Reduce Overwhelm, and Conquer Burnout gives you easy-to-use self-help tools to increase your stamina and step up your patient-care capacity. By recognizing your negative-reaction triggers, you can train yourself to stop spiraling out of control and find the calm within the storm. You’ll learn how to avoid being crushed by your non-stop, high-stakes vocation, and reclaim space for yourself.